The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

BooKVH. Royal Comment~rief. ' ·, " failed ofCats, and Dogs, and the Skins of Beaíl:s; a¡¡d this wa·s all the Ínrelli- " gence they had, beihg brought to them by aMeífenger who eftaped down che " River, reprefenting with Sighs and Tears· rb.e miferabl~ condición df theit " people. Wherefore the firíl: thing that this Colonel defigned afrer bis landing; " was to relieve the City of O/orno, for he was informed that the Enemy foon ", after Jhe Defüuétion óf Valdivía, were gol)e thither w..ith the like in(ent5 , llis " fucc;eCs herein was accordingly profperous; for he ra.ifed ~ the Siege, and pétfor- " ~ed other Afüons of happy confeqlience. ' . , ) " At the iníl:ant that I am writing this, news is come¡ that ali. the peopfe1 iri · ~' Tmperiall were [Jarved with hunger a~r . the Siege of a complete Y ear, excepting " twenty Men, who, ro avoid Famine ~ yielded chemfelves )nto .che banas of .j' _che Enemy, and chereby entlured a greater i.riifery than·Death itfelf. In Ang~l ' they killed four Souldiers, bue who they,were iS not yet known. God Al~ ~~ inighcy have Merey upon us. From Santiago in Chili, in the m,onth o} March, · 16ooi ' ' i 1 All which Relatlon éame (as 1 have fald) in 'Íeveral Letter~ ·fiom Peru, and the kingdom of Chili, which was a grea t c;alamjcy to chat Countrey. Moreover Father Diego de Alcobaf.a, whom I have former.ly memioned, ,¡n the Year 1601 : amongíl: many other chings reláting to the Affair s of thac Gountrey, writes mé thefe very words concerning che Kingdom of Chili. " The condition of Chili is now become very unhappy, for cbere b.nóc an inJ. ' ' dian but who can.mount hi& Horfe, and da¡e encounter with bis Launce the " beft Spanifh Souldier that is; and though we fend every year Souldiers thither; " yet none of them retum; ,they have deíl:royed ~wo Plantations of rhe Spttniard1; · " and having killed all .the Men, and deíl:royed every thing of ufe, they carried " their .Wives and Children into Slavery; and lately they killed the Governour. ' ' LoJola from an Ambuf cade , who married the _Daughtet of D. Diego Sayrutipac~ ~· who was an Inca, and w.as departed from Vi!lcapampa; beforé you léft. tnefü " pares. God in bis mer ey pa rdon the Sins of the dead, and put an entl to thefe ' ' Affiiétions of the living. Thus far are che words of Alcobdf a; . whíCh he wrices me with many other fad fiories ; which I purpofely omit, becaufe they concain nothing but what is tragical, and full qf forrow; amongíl which recounting thé affiiéted Eíl:ate of ArequepA, he fays that W heat thac Year was worth in that' Coµntrey ten and eleven Ducats a Buíhel, and Mayz thirteen. . Moreover, fuefides all that which we have already delivered eoncerning Areque- -pa, -they wrote farther, that their calamities füll...continued, having to contend with tne extremities of che four Elements; .as appears at Jarge by-e-bofe Relations which che Jefüits have given tó the General óf their Order, concerning the.moft temarkable Occurrences ,of Peru; . which happeried in theYéa i 602. And though thofe Letters fay, that their misfoi:times were ,not at an end, yet they farther add, that greacer were che Affiiétions of füe J(ingdbm of Chiii, which happened after the forernentioned troubles; the particulars of whicp were giveil me óy Francifoo Je Cajlro, who was born at Granada, and in this Year 1604. is Prefeét of the Schools of che facred Univerfity of Cordova, and Rhetoric' Profeífour. The Ti: de ofwhich, together with che particulars, is Yerbatim in thefe words; P•' p'~ * o/